Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-31
BADGER NEWS.


tipped over and were seriously in
iured. Miss Farnham had q leg bro
ken and Mr.. Boyd was cut and bruised
about the head.
MRS. MARY BUTKA, a Bohemian, COM
mitted suicide at Prairie du CHEN by
hanging herself to g. beam used for
hanging up hogs. Her body WAS cold
when found by her husband. She
leaves an infant child one week old.
W. FoRNAN, O. prominent farmer re-
siding in Pleasant Valley, Eau Claire
County, has been arrested on charge
OF seduction and held for his appear
ance at the circuit court. The charge
Is preferred by q lady who has been
held IN high esteem by her neighbors
and causes much surprise.
THE La Crosse Labor Advocate,
George Taylor's paper, has suspended
for lack of support.
AT colored ball at Progress Hall,
Milwaukee, on the 25th, two brunette
bellies had an alteration over their
respective claims to the affections OF a
gentleman of color, and Laura Will
Jams used q razor with bloody though
not fatal effect on Maud Smith. This
is the second meeting of the hostiles,
in the former case the tables being
turned and q potato-masher the
weapon used.
LOUIS BABE, q railroad employe at
Eau Claire, WAS struck in the face by
g telegraph wire while riding on top of
a box car, and badly cut.
A LAND lizard was found eighteen
feet below the surface, embedded in
solid earth, at North Bashaw, Wash.
burn County, the other day
FRANK DENN1soN, the son of respect
able La Crosse people, has been ar
rested for and pleads guilty of bur-
glary. He is charged with robbing the
telephone exchange.
IT is said that the Sioux City COM
mission house, which it was reported
would be g. Chicago enterprise, is
| backed heavily by Milwaukee parties,
and that the house will be managed
by P. j. Cudahy, who has been con-
nected with the Milw aukee house of
John Plankinton & Co. for years.
THE Oldest miner in the Wisconsin
and Illinois lead region is Capt. Har-
ris, of Galena, who tells ofprospecting
tours sixty.four years ago, when his
only companion was an Indian lad.
Capt. Harris has taken out 14,OOO,-
600 pounds of mineral from g. twenty-
acre tract and is still working the
same claim.
| THOMAS A. Dyson, who has just
been appointed probate judge Of La
Crosse County, spent his youth in Mil
waukee and was q graduate Of the old
| Pomeroy School. After locating in
La Crosse ne became law student,
court reporter and member of the bar,
going to the state senate last winter.
TIMOTHY BoARDMAN, who built the
first house on the prairie where North
La Crosse now stands, is dead at the
age Of II years. Mr.. Boardman fol-
| lowed the life of riyerman over thirty
years.
SEVERAL months ago James Craik,
a miller, disappeared from his home at
La Crosse under mysterious circum-
stances, and the finding of his empty
pocketbook bearing bloodstains and
other suspicious circumstances gave
ground for the belief that he had been
murdered on the island opposite that
| city. A careful search was made for
the mans body, bat without success.
Now comes q letter from the brother
OF the missing man stating that James
Craik is in Dakota, but that his mind
Is not right. No other explanation is
given OF his disappearance.
CHRISTOPHER PAULsEN, a Norwegian,
third assistant superintendent Of the
engineering department of the MilWau-
kee, Lake Shore & Western Railway,
left his home in the suburbs of Ash
land on the night of the 21st to make
some purchases and pay some bills.
He WAS last seen at Marshall's saloon
about 10 O'Clock. He had a. large
sum OF money with him and he is sup
posed to have been murdered, as the
wrappers of the goods he had pur-
chased were found in a lonely place
near his home.
THE deficit Of ex-Deputy County
Treasurer Louis E. Strum, of Eau
Claire, has been settled by friends of
the accused restoring to the treasury
the amount OF shortage-nearly &c.
OOO-and the prosecution of Strum,
who has been in jail for some time,
will probably be dropped, as the
trouble was caused by irregularity
and not intention to defraud.
AT the Mendoza State Hospital for
the Insane increased facilities are be-
ing provided for successfully combat
ting fire. Ladders are being put from
the roof of the main building down to
the roofs of the wings, and 500 feet
| more Of hose has been ordered.
TYPHOID fever prevails in La Crosse
to considerable extent.
u. j. HUEFFNER has begun suit at
Milwaukee against the Brotherton
Iron Company to recover the purchase
money paid for 600 shares OF thecom
pany's stock. Hueffner claims that
when he bought the stock, the COM
pany agreed to bring it back again on
ten days notes at 81 per share in
case the market price failed to reach
that point within g. certain time.
Hueffner says that the stock failed to
go up and that the company refused
to buy it back as they had agreed.
AN Ashland dispatch states that
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